Pholiota adiposa (Fr.) Kummer syn. Dryophila sciposa (Fr.) Quél. Schleimiger Schüppling. Cap 5–12cm across, golden-yellow, viscid, covered in gelatinous rusty-brown upturned scales especially towards the centre. Stem 20–50 x 5–10mm, often curved or distorted due to growing in clusters, yellow, smooth above the inconspicuous torn ring, covered in bands of viscid brownish recurved scales below. Flesh tough, pale yellow in cap darkening to brownish in the stem. Smell scented. Gills yellow at first later rusty-brown. Pleurocystidia thin-walled, lanceolate with an acute mucronate apex. Spore print rusty-brown. Spores oval, smooth, 5–6.5 x 3–3.5um. Habitat is dense clusters at the foot of beech trees or stumps. Season late summer to autumn. Uncommon. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.